Truly, now. 60 bishops speaking out on abortion just before the election. How often has that happened?
So I guess it’s no wonder that Cafeteria Catholics are outraged.
Full article here, bits below.
In New York, Cardinal Edward M. Egan published a picture last week of a 20-week-old fetus in his newspaper column and declared that abortion is a crime “no less heinous than what was perpetrated by Hitler and Stalin.”
In Dallas and Fort Worth, two bishops jointly declared that voting for a politician who supports abortion rights is “morally impermissible.” In Pennsylvania, a bishop made a surprise visit to a parish politics forum, declared, “I own this building,” and dismissed the bishops’ own voting guide that says Catholics are not single-issue voters.
Over the last few weeks, more than 60 Catholic bishops, articulating their traditional views in ever stronger language, have urged voters to make abortion their top priority in an election dominated by the nation’s economic turmoil.
